Butte Electric Cooperative

About Butte Electric Cooperative

Butte Electric Cooperative is an electricity cooperative operating in South Dakota, including cities like Spearfish, Sturgis, Belle Fourche, North Spearfish CDP, and Deadwood. Recently, the company reported a customer base of 5,757 accounts, 4,869 of which are residential properties, 794 are commercial customer accounts and 94 are industrial accounts. The residential electricity rate for patrons of Butte Electric Cooperative is, on average, 13.99 cents per kilowatt hour, resulting in the supplier ranking 62nd out of 74 suppliers in South Dakota and 1659th out of 2892 in the country. In 2019 the company had retail sales of 105,858 megawatt hours. The electricity they sourced consisted of megawatt hours that they procured on the wholesale market. They purchased 110,758 on the wholesale market. Their revenue for 2019 from electricity related activities was $14,830,700, with $14,399,900 from retail sales to end users.

Patrons of the supplier pay an average monthly residential electric bill of $137.71. This is 1.75% higher than the national average bill of $135.34. The supplier is not associated with any power facilities and all of the electricity that they sell to their customers must be purchased from other providers.